Rome: 8 Great Free Sights
Enjoy these 8 great free sights and pleasant walks in Rome, even though this city is expensive…I’ve visited Rome enough times to know that I no longer want to mooch shoulder-to-shoulder traipsing around this city, whilst moving amongst a flood-tide of tourists. Nor do I want to pay for everything that I visit as I just don’t have that much surplus...
Pizza, Pasta, and Many, Many Naked Statues: How to Do Rome With The Kids
The idea first came when, pregnant with my elder child, I visited Israel with my husband, Claude. We had a stopover in Milan on the way back, and while we were in the airport, we watched an American toddler roll on the floor like an animal, her sweatpanted mother and father barely registering her existence. Next to them, a French child of the same...
Italian Regional Food: the North
First-time travelers to Italy may be surprised to find such a culinary diversity from region to region. Unlike your typical Italian restaurant in the States, Italian food has much more variety than spaghetti and meatballs or eggplant parmesan. Even though you can find Italian specialties like pizza and tortellini all over Italy, it is well worth sa...
Longevity gene rejuvenates blood vessels, Italians say
A longevity gene isolated in the DNA of centenarians has been shown to rejuvenate blood vessels, an Italian team said in a study published in the European Heart Journal. The study paves the way for new therapies against cardiovascular diseases, said the team from the University of Salerno, Irccs MultiMedica and Irccs Neuromed, led by Annibale Puca...
A Year of the Art of Rowing: Regattas in Italy
When you think about it, Italians must find our Anglo-Saxon style of rowing bizarre, sitting down and travelling backwards. Perhaps theirs is more logical, as well as more elegant: think of a gondolier, for instance. Italians row standing up, facing forwards and with one oar or two. It is a very popular form of exercise and spectacle, nowhere more...
Tenuta Luce Roots Its Wine Reputation In The Montalcino Hills
Ancient Etruscan civilization is more intriguingly mysterious than that of Rome—which succeeded it. The Etruscans originated outside the Italian peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean. Their technical advances were profound (they invented the arch and rectilinear city planning). Their scribes wrote from right to left, and sometimes alternately from...
Boxing with giants: Italy's packing robots are not just cardboard cutouts
Amazon’s new recruit comes from a medieval walled town in central Italy and can box and seal at least 600 items of different shapes and sizes every hour. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. That recruit is the CartonWrap, brainchild of CMC, a small firm that is just one of 630 Italian companies making automated packaging machines - one of I...
Pride of a Different Sort: Disabled Italians Parade in Rome
Italians from around the country paraded through Rome’s ruins and its most prominent shopping street on Sunday in a loud and lively celebration of people with disabilities, a group that remains largely unseen in the country. “An inclusive world is a better world,” Carmelo Comisi, the founder of the event, said. “Italian culture has to be changed.”...
Taglio eletti all’estero, Francesca Alderisi (FI): “Premesse per la cancellazione totale della Circoscrizione Estero?”
“Il taglio degli eletti all'estero è il prologo di una messinscena dal finale prevedibile. I 12 rappresentanti degli italiani nel mondo sono un contentino ingannevolmente consolatorio; sono il preludio della cancellazione totale della Circoscrizione Estero”. Così la senatrice Francesca Alderisi (FI), eletta in Nord e Centro America, a seguito dell’...
Blue seas and pictures of the perfect nature of Tuscany
Sun, sea and nature: these are Tuscany's vacation gift to you. A fun-filled environment full of places to discover with a costal setting perfect for everyone. After diving into the region’s beautiful sea, take a stroll around the historical center of local historic towns. The day can’t end without a trip to nearby museums and squares, where visitor...
America's Cup boats to kick off in Sardinia in April
The America's Cup World Series will begin in Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia from April 23-26. It will be the first competition for the innovative AC75 class boats that will vie for the America's Cup in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2021. The World Series regatta had been scheduled for October but was pushed back. Teams had feared another de...
How the Piemonte’s once-humble nebbiolo grape remade its image
Not so long ago, as in well less than a century ago, grape growers in the Piemonte in northwest Italy were mostly subsistence farmers, scratching out a living selling their fruit in bulk to cooperatives. Then, World War II made a mess of the region’s economy — its industrial center, Turin, was badly bombed — and the world’s wine consumption, outsid...